On 9th of November Estonian University of Life Sciences celebrates its anniversary – 170 years of veterinary education in Tartu.
We are more than happy that during this year’s celebration our beloved project partner Professor Poul Hyttel from University of Copenhagen will be conferred as Honorary Doctor.
After his conferment Professor and Honorary Doctor Poul Hyttel will give an academic lecture titled “Stem cells – from animal to man and back again“. We invite you to celebrate with us!https://www.emu.ee/…/festive-meeting-and-the-following-rec…/

EMÜ researchers Andres Valdman and Jevgeni Kurõkin attended the 10th International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium (IRRS) at the Wish Resort Golf & Convention in Foz do Iguaçu – Brazil.
Two senior researchers from EMÜ attended the IRRS meeting in Brazil and presented their work as a poster presentation about "Determinants of cytological endometritis in multiparous Holstein cows".
The International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium (IRRS) is recognized as one of the most prestigious international conferences on ruminant reproduction. In the 10th IRRS 32 speakers among the most recognized scientists from around the world presented cutting-edge topics on re...

Rafaela Konstantinidi an undergraduate research student in my group at Sheffield has had her research project selected for presentation at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) on 12-13 April 2018. The project is entitled 'Investigating how the presence of spermatozoa alters the secretion of extracellular vesicles by cultured porcine oviductal epithelial cells in an in vitro model of the female reproductive tract'.
Good luch for future investigations Rafaela!

The University of Life Sciences and the Chair of Animal Breeding and Biotechnology Institute of Veterinary are welcoming Monika Dovenska
Monika Dovenska was born in 1986 in Kumanovo, Macedonia, where she finished primary and high school. In 2012 she got her DVM title at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb in Croatia. Since 2013 she has been employed at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – Skopje, University „Ss. Cyril and Methodius“ in Macedonia as young researcher at the Department of Functional Morphology which is part of the Institute for Reproduction and Biomedicine, where she also started her PhD studies.
She is an assistant in t...

The University of Sheffield research group attended the UK Extracellular Vesicles Forum on 12 December 2017.
The abstract presented was titled "Investigating whether the presence of spermatozoa alters the secretion of extracellular vesicles by cultured porcine oviductal epithelial cells in an in vitro model of the female reproductive tract".
Rafaela Konstantinidi was awarded SURE Student Researcher of the Year 2018.
Many congratulations!

First cow calf in Estonia born from the OPU technology
Risto Mets / translated and photo by Andri Küüts
On January 27th, a new cow calf was born. She looks and acts like any other newborn calf. But what is special about her is the way she was brought into this world.
It is the first cow calf in Estonia who's derived from the OPU technology by grafting the egg from a live animal by extraction, cultivation and embryo transfer method. With this kind of experiments our veterinary scientists want to develop a service for the extraction of bovine embryos in order to intensify cooperation between researchers and practitioners and to improve the competitiveness of t...

Marilin Ivask gave a talk in Kiviõli I High school about "Kloonimine ehk mida EMÜ embrüolaboris tehakse".
Elina Mark visited Jõhvi Gymnasium and gave a talk about "Sigimise biotehnoloogiad loomakasvatuses".
Monika Nõmm supervised a hands on curse for in vitro embryo production to the students from Ülenurme Gymnasium.

We are happy to announce that PhD student Elina Mark from EMU has been starting to supervise a third year bachelor student Hanna Raidvere with the topic of „Different effects of vitrification media on bovine embryo cryopreservation“. Elina is also supervising Pihla Teppo on her thesis about „Oocyte quality and donor animal healt“.

Funded by the European Union through the Coordination and Support Action of the Horizon 2020 programme, under grant agreement No 692299 "Scientific Excellence in Animal Reproductive Medicine and Embryo Technology"